Voltaire

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.